PaxOku, Tokuno, Chesapeake (PaxLair Times) – January 16, 2011 – by Ashlynn – Events continued on the second day of the anniversary celebrations and events included a tour of the old lands led by Lady Winmere, a strange game that involved livestock run by myself, and a parade through the lands led by Governor Winfield.
Lady Winmere tells us the history of the Kreuger Memorial.
The evening began with a gathering in PaxOku outside the Tea House where we were met by Lady Winmere who gave us a tour of a number of old shrines, memorials and other structures throughout Felucca. Some of the places we visited included a large temple in the mountains of Dagger Isle, a camp built by the famous Dupre, a lucky tree of some sort that required a gentle kiss, the Stormbringer Estate, and the Tower of Souls. Two memorials dedicated to past citizens of the realm were also amongst the places visited.
Events were then put on hold for an hour by the weekly Hall of Commons held near Britain with a number of people attending as others prepared for the evening’s contest. A mighty battle of champions with heroes from all across the realm that would be forever known as…
Brave champions prepare for a contest of colossal proportions.
…The Cow Event. An unassuming name for an extremely challenging game. The champions participating in the event all gathered at a field and barn on North Jhelom Island where the rules and aim of the game were explained. All the contestants had to do was take an empty pitcher one at a time, find a cow in the field and milk it. The person who milked the most in ten minutes would be the winner.
Although things were a little disorganised, the game proceeded without any major problems and at the end of the contest there were actually three winners instead of one as can be seen in the results below:
- Winmere: 736 pitchers (Although some had appeared through some kind of strange esoterica, so she withdrew her result.)
- Grimlar Mithrax: 8 pitchers
- Robin Hood: 8 pitchers
- Wat the Tyler: 8 pitchers
- Yoshi: 5 pitchers
- Winfield: 4 pitchers
- NANOC: 3 pitchers
- Ga’kuct: 0 pitchers (I suspect orcs don’t know what an udder is for.)
- Phoenix: 0 pitchers (Sadly, she had to retire early.)
After prizes were handed out (with some kindly donated by Wat the Tyler) everyone left to gather at the community centre in Skara Brae from where Governor Winfield would begin the parade. The parade took our group across Britannia from Nidaros to the dungeon of Shame where we skirmished with the elemental denziens of that cave for some time. After feeling satisfied that the elementals had shared in the anniversary celebrations, we all returned to the Tea House and bid each other good night while looking forward to a third day of events!